I tend to think that modernday religions could easily be age-garbled memories of a highly advanced civilization which existed in the ancient past. An age in which the technology employed by the so-called 'Gods' was regarded as magic by those humans whose records we now regard as mythology. Exactly how would the design/construction blueprints, wiring diagrams etc... of Starship Enterprise be translated into ancient Aztec for example? If looked at from this perspective, many of the oldest of humanities myth/legends make suprisingly good sense; unfortunately the idea infuriates both the religious fraternity and the so-called scientifically based evolutionists. Never'the'less, modern archeologists need to stop ignoring the increasing large amounts of inconvenient historic 'fact/anomalies' from our ancient past. The first advanced human civilizations were clearly much older than is currently accepted today.

If, rather than ET/Aliens, the legendary 'Gods' were actually survivors of a highly advanced human civilisation which existed in the ancient past which was devastated/destroyed by some planet-wide catastrophe now remembered by science as 'the End of the Ice Age'; much which is currently unexplainable:- the megalithic remains of buildings constructed of stone blocks weighing hundreds of tons, the sometimes detailed descriptions of advanced machinery/technology contained in ancient myth/legend etc... all becomes much more easily understandable.

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It's also possible that irrefutable proof already exists. NASA Reports supposedly say the Moon:- "range like a bell for several hours" following some Apollo Moon Landings. Was that noise the echo of a hollow, artificially constructed satellite; shot through with "bottomless craters" by meteors.........? Perhaps the massively destabling potential of making public such a discovery was considered just too dangerous to risk? Recently released Vatican records show that from the Roman era, the Popes' had always known of 'the Lands beyond the Western Ocean' but for shrewd politico-religious reasons concealed this knowledge behind a deliberately false Flat Earth/Hell Beyond The Horizon mythology until the dawn of the Renaissance.